Para 66) To eliminate stigma and discrimination, Government adopted a Broad-based Stigma and Discrimination Reduction approach. Initiatives include: …• Training of service providers and peer educators.
Para 102) The Botswana Police Service has a training module on gender-based violence for pre-service and in-service officers. This facilitates officers’ competence in appropriately dealing with GBV. In addition, all district police stations have a gender focal person responsible for ensuring correct handling of GBV cases such as obtaining statements from GBV victims or survivors in private rooms.
Para 103) With respect to health care providers, there is a comprehensive national plan (2019-2024) to remove human rights and gender related barriers to HIV and TB services. This plan includes interventions to train and capacitate police to collaborate with CSO and health care providers to respond to GBV. This intervention is part of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV and AIDS (UNAIDS) Seven Key Programmes to remove human rights barriers to HIV and TB services supported by the Global Fund in twenty countries globally through the catalytic/matched funding. Government is currently implementing the Global Fund grant for 2019-2021 and has been allocated further matched funding for the 2022-2025 cycle.
Para 104) To date, Members of the National Gender Commission have been trained on gender and development to equip them with skills to adequately deliver on their mandate. The next steps include developing a Strategy to guide their work as well as undertaking benchmarking for best practices. The Commission is scheduled to have dialogues with various groups beginning February, 2023. Target groups include: Faith Based Organisations, Dikgosi (Traditional Leaders), People with Disabilities, the Sporting Fraternity and Pioneers of the Gender Movement in Botswana.
Para 54) … AI … stated that Botswana had involved traditional leaders in its efforts to combat gender-based violence and that under the leadership of the local government, Dikgosi, a national action plan on gender-based violence was being developed, containing a training curriculum on gender-based violence for Dikgosi.